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:: Saturday, September 18, 2004 ::

RatherGate Linked to Democrat Party?

Tim Blair links to a NYT column quoting Bill Burkett's August 21st email admission that he "spent some time on the phone with the Kerry campaign seniors yesterday" and also "talked with Max Cleland" and "I asked if they wanted to counterattack or ride this to ground and outlast it, not spending any money. He said counterattack."

Looks increasingly likely Mr. Burkett might be connected to the forged RatherGate documents. If it is ultimately proven that Burkett was the source of the forgeries, and Rather had even a passing knowlege that the documents were faked and that they came from the Kerry campaign itself, the scandal takes on a whole new scope and scale for Rather, CBS, Viacom and MSM by extension.

Interestingly, until this point the blogosphere has taken the lead on the RatherGate scandal but with the stakes this high, you can bet MSM won't let another giant scoop pass them by so easily.

(Bet Burkett's gonna have tough time getting all those CNN tire-tracks out of his front yard)

More: The Corner points to this CNS News column on the Burket connection.

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